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COMBINED ROCKING CHAIR AND HOBBY HORSE. No. 275,583. Patented Apr. 10,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAY F. BUTLER, OF BROOKLYN AND URIAH MOGLINGHIE, OF NEW YORK,.N. Y.z

COMBINED ROCKING-CHAIR AND HOBBY-HORSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,583, dated April 10, 1883.

Application filed February 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAY F. BUTLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, and URIAH McOLINoHIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in a. Combined Rocking-Chair and Hobby-Horse, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to acomb-ined rocking chair and hobby-horse for children; and the novelty consists inthe construction and arrangement of parts in their relations to each other,as will be more fully hereinafter setforth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a combined chair and hobby-horse which shall by reason of its material have a spring-play in different directions, and afford convenient hand-holds for the child. The entire frame, except the rockers and brace-plates, is formed of rattan, reed, or willow wicker-work. The

chair-back extends down to the rockers, the sides of the portion representing the horse being secured to the sills of said sides, and the rattan, reeds, or willow which form the back and seat are in pieces extending from the forward transverse bar in the form of a curve, which comprises a spring along the seat from front to back, up the back, and passed through loops in the top thereof and back to form similar supporting and spring portions. Aconvenient tray is arranged in front of the seat for toys or food, and the entire device is of such elastic springyconstructionand material as to not only have a soothing effect upon the child, but also to serve to cushion concussion and prevent the noise and jar which necessarily follows a rigid construction. In the general construction, the back extending to the rockers, the hobby sides secured to both back and seat, and in the single reeds forming back, bottom, and forward curved spring, lie the es sential features of this invention.

The invention is fully illustrated in the ac companying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our invention, and Fig.2 a central longitudinal section.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, A designates the rockers, and a the brace-plates, either or both of which may be ornamented in any desirable manner. Se cured to each rocker, near their extremities, are the portions representing the legs of the horse B, and between the portions representing the neck of the horse is secured the toy or food tray (3. For the convenience of this construction, and to hold the sides firmly in vertical position, we form between said sides a chair, the back standards, D, of which being properly secured to the rockers at or near their centers at d. These back pieces, D, serve therefore to support the centers of the sides, which in this construction-that is to say, of wickerwork--needssuch support, while the cross-bars d serve to hold said sides in their vertical positions parallel with each other.

The seat F and back I) of the chair are formed of reeds f, which, being doubled upon themselves, pass from the top of said back downward across the seat frolnrear to front, are formed into a spring-curve, f, at the front of the seat, and the free ends secured to the crossbar f, as shown. The side rails of the seat portion F pass along inside of the side portions, B, and, being secured thereto, serve efficiently to strengthen the whole. The curve f affords an easy and convenient rest for the legs of the child, with no abrupt corners to worry or injure the parts.

The entire device, being made of rattan or willow wicker-work, is ornamental, light, and.

sufllciently flexible to accomplish the advantages heretofore set forth, while the open'work at the sides afl'ords a convenient hand-hold for the child, allowing it to raise itself upon its feet, and thus exercise the muscles which are to be employed as it learns to walk. A handbar, at, is arranged between the heads of the sides to assist the child in this latter practice.

bent downward at the front edge of the seat, combined and arranged to serve as and for the the said parts being united, substantially as purpose set forth. and for the purpose described. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set 3. In a combined ehilds chair and hobbyour hands and seals in the presence of two 5 horse formed of rattan or willow wicker-work, 1 subscribing witnesses.

the back rails, D, extending to the rockers to l JAY F. BUTLER. [L. 8.] support the sides, the seat F, arranged nearly URIAH MGGLINCHIE. ['L. S.] parallel to the sill of the sides, and the rattans, Witnesses:

reeds, or willows of the back and seat, arranged GEO. G. NIoHoLs,

10 to form curve f, the sides B, and rockers, all (J. I). M. PEELE. 

